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Re: [amibroker] A simple system - why doesn't a trade show up?



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You are using positionsize = 25% of equity, then you could get a
situation where the available cash is less than 25% of equity
You can switch on allowshrinking, if you want smaller trade sizes
SetOption( "AllowPositionShrinking", 1 );

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On 23/03/2008, droskill <droskill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey all, was just playing around with a stupid idea - coded it up and
>  ran it against a watch list that contained: SPY, QQQQ, EEM, IEF.
>
>  Here's what I don't get - if you run this against those instruments (I
>  use TC2007 for data), and then I select to show the actual trades for
>  the instrument IEF, I can see a trade where the cross happened - yet
>  this trade doesn't show up on the list, and there are definitely open
>  position slots (obviously if I have 4 positions and only 4 equities).
>
>  Anyone got any idea what's going on here?
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  /d/
>
>  Here's the system (trading LONG only):
>  ----------------------------
>  PosQty = 4; // You can define here how many open positions you want
>  SetOption("MaxOpenPositions", PosQty );
>  PositionSize = -100/PosQty;
>
>
>  MA1 = MA(C,200);
>  MA2 = MA(MA1,50);
>
>  Buy = Cross(MA1,MA2) OR MA1 > MA2;
>  Sell = Cross(MA2,MA1) OR MA1 < MA2;
>
>  Short = Sell;
>  Cover = Buy;
>
>  PositionScore = ROC (C, 50);
>
>
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